The country’s main perishables export organisations have been in talks with the ministries of transport and economy to find solutions to problems that have taken a heavy toll on fruit shipments to overseas markets. The aim is to find measures that can improve port efficiency, address shortages of...

The Bangladesh Inland Container Depot Association (BICDA) held two meetings with the Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association and Bangladesh Shipping Agents Association and took the decision to raise charges after “finding no other options”. The government raised petrol prices by 51.1% on 6 Au...

Speaking exclusively to Logistic-News, Mr Kenney said the FMC’s proposed emergency order would require carriers to share information about cargo availability directly with shippers, truckers and rail carriers. But for there to be a significant change to the levels of congestion, more drastic actio...

IPP Air Cargosaid its first 737-800BCF was “nearly done” after  conversion at Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering in China, where it has a second aircraft undergoing conversion and two more on the way. The airline was set up last year by billionaire Johnathan Hanh Nguyen, chairman of Im...

The box ship, on the newly launched China-Europe Panda service, discharging its first containers, Tailwind-liveried, at ECT, Rotterdam. According to Alphaliner, the chartered vessel then made an ad-hoc call at Antwerp to take a full load of empty Hapag-Lloyd containers for return to China. The con...

This section analyses the biggest news stories of the summer, including industrial unrest at European ports, the latest from China and why US west coast port congestion has shifted east. It also includes a full briefing on air and ocean freight rates. In par...

The news comes three days into an eight-day strike at the UK’s largest container port of Felixstowe, from where Cosco and Maersk are rerouting services, causing headaches for forwarders struggling to move goods overland. CMA CGM said: “The dates of the strikes have yet to be announced. However,...

The cargo airline says the carbon-offset projects are third-party-validated by corporate sustainability consultant Gold Standard. Cathay Pacific will deliver the calculations by waybill number, using the latest methodology from IATA: the Recommended Practice 1678 (RP1678). “Multiple factors can ...

The Inland Empire is a metropolitan area around the cities of San Bernadino and Riverside, which borders Los Angeles to the west. For many in the logistics industry, it has been synonymous with warehousing. But now, residents in the region, which has a population of around four million, have op...

Bank holiday working at the port would normally be possible with overtime, but as part of its increasingly acrimonious spat with the Unite union, the port management is refusing to work ships already alongside, or that could be alongside on Monday morning. They include the 17,816 teu Evelyn Maersk�...